Industry Veteran Joins Pixo as Senior Vice President of Engineering; Larry Slotnick to Lead Wireless Internet Technology Vision.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2001 Pixo Inc., (www.pixo.com) a leading developer of software and applications for wireless phones, today announced the appointment of Larry Slotnick as senior vice president of engineering. In this new capacity, Slotnick will manage all engineering, product development and architecture development for Pixo. "Larry is a seasoned executive with VP-level experience in driving engineering for some of the industry's leading technology products," said Dave Rothschild, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Pixo. "His leadership skills combined with his technology creativity will greatly speed and expand our scope of product innovation." Slotnick previously served as vice president of engineering for Noosh where he was responsible for leading the engineering organization to define, create, test and deploy a B2B e-commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. Web service. Prior to joining Noosh, Slotnick was vice president of software engineering for Apple Computer, where he managed the engineering staff for the Internet and enterprise technologies division. In a previous telephony industry role, he served as vice president of engineering at Octel Communications where he led the teams delivering Octel's industry leading voicemail servers and charted the strategic direction toward what is now unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. . Slotnick earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal in computer science. About Pixo Inc. Pixo is a leading developer of a wireless software platform and services for wireless phone manufacturers, carriers, and content providers. The Pixo software platform integrates Pixo phone software with Internet services, making Web-enabled phones both simple and convenient to use. The Pixo Platform includes the Pixo Platform Applications, Pixo User Interface Builder, Pixo Application Framework, Pixo Toolbox, Pixo Kernel, Pixo Partner Applications, and components such as the Pixo Internet Microbrowser A Web browser designed for small display screens on smartphones and other handheld wireless devices. See smartphone and WAP. . Pixo is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with headquarters in San Jose. For more information, visit http://www.pixo.com. Note to Editors: Pixo is a trademark of Pixo Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Screenshots from the Pixo Internet Microbrowser and the Pixo logo may be downloaded from http://www.pixo.com/ftp/pixo.zip |
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